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[mass effect] [tabletop rp]
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TFW the asari cinnamon roll in the party asks the corporate VI she has admin clearance with "Stormhawk, who on the staff has fraternized in the last six weeks?"
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The elcor security officer and the turian physicist have an explicit extranet correspondence
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two of the quarians have consulted the medical officer about linking suit environments
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Doctor Neophron and Doctor Pandion on Project Gyro have an ongoing intimate relationship
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and as per standard procedure, no monitoring data is available for the volus barracks
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Doctor Obak Melv of Project Junji has continued to refer to his drone Pie Tot as "my sweet little baby"
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wheezes
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oh no it's cute
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I KNOW
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I'm having a lot of fun with this one-shot
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(also, the slowly dawning horror of the realization that yes, the corporate VI has access to all these facts... and the lack of any privacy laws on Noveria means that the party, who's conducting an independent security audit, ABSOLUTELY has clearance to make the VI shamelessly cough up that intel)
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ahhh Noveria
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libertarian utopia
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yep
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the party is a group of stringers for Elanus Risk Control Services, 2 years before the Skyllian Blitz
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oh nice
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Turian Scrapper Soldier, Asari Bureaucrat Biotic, Drell Criminal Vanguard, Salarian SysOps Infiltrator, Salarian Bureaucrat Infiltrator. using the rules at n7.world
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I had so much fun doing level maps for Peak Four and Crest Station:
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they are CLOSE, but not identical to, the ME 1 levels on Noveria
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for when combat breaks out I also have a stencil sheet of cover shapes to populate the maps with
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also I discovered I named 2 elcor after zambonis
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see the most common recurring elements in elcor names in canon are: three syllables, starting with Z, ending in i
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so I giggled at that and made the elcor security officer Zonmabi
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two weeks later
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forgetting I had already done that
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I named an elcor criminal contact Zabbroni
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That is, "Jabroni + Zamboni"
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I did not know this was a thing and right now my entire brain consists of endless delighted screaming about Victorian Mage 20, but have bookmarked for future shenanigans
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listen, I was running Demon: the Fallen once, Lucifer was running around in what passes for disguise, the players asked for his name, I drew a complete blank and replied "Michael Adams" and my not-yet-boyfriend-turned-husband stared at me and said "Really?"
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If I run more than this one adventure, I'd love to recruit you!
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chirps happily
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I'm making myself wait until March 1 to pull the bell cord on buying the fancy leatherette edition of M20 Victorian, but
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(this in turn makes me think of Elizabeth Bear's Ink and Steel, where someone (Kit Marlowe?) is speculating about the anatomy of God, and Lucifer says "God has an arsehole. He's named Michael.")
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been feeling the need to dust off my poor Dark Ages chron
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noted.
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and do that social gaming thing again
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LOL oh that's the truth re Michael
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funny you should mention; I've been poking Dark Ages a lot this week because it helps me to stat up novel characters, especially if they are magic users - I don't consider the stats binding, but guidelines
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and I am working on the teachers and students of the Scholomance
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and obvsly VDA and VTM are perfect for that
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yessssssss
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in college the only writing class worth a damn that I took was with a visiting professor. I asked him if I could write my final project set in the world of a tabletop game.
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He lit up like Christmas and was like "Yes! I think those are wonderful tools for writers! In fact you should bring copies of a blank character sheet and we'll discuss with the class what kind of rough build you had in mind for this character" and it was Mage: the Ascension so he asked the class to guess what stat priorities I had chosen
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excellent